Monday, May 8, 2023

Day 919 of GOP election denier hysteria (Trump Big Lie Clown Show Circus, Wisconsin edition)

 
Meet the stars of the
ATTACK Of the Clown Show zombies
 
Starring Wisconsin fake elector
Robert Spindell
HeadlineWisconsin State Journal, 5/8/2023
Dane County Circuit Court Judge Frank Remington, who plans to issue a written ruling in the next week or so, said when he sends the matter back to the Wisconsin Elections Commission he'll stipulate that GOP commissioner Robert Spindell Jr. — who was also one of the 10 fake electors to sign the documents — must recuse himself this time around.  
In March 2022, Spindell and the rest of the bipartisan commission unanimously dismissed the complaint, writing in a memo at the time that state law does not prohibit an alternative set of electors from meeting and the 10 Republicans were not acting as electors when they met in late 2020 to sign the documents.
 
Stephanie Scott
Ousted Michigan election clerk
HeadlineTV6, 5/3/2023
Voters in one of Michigan’s most conservative counties have ousted a small-town clerk accused of improperly handling voting equipment after casting doubt on President Joe Biden’s election victory. 
Stephanie Scott lost Tuesday's recall election in Hillsdale County's Adams Township to Suzy Roberts, who got 406 votes to Scott's 214, according to unofficial results reported by the county clerk's office
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He who started it all
HeadlineIndependent, 5/4/2023
Donald Trump fumed at Fox News on Wednesday in his first public comments discussing the Dominion Voting Systems settlement with a reporter. 
The ex-president was speaking with British broadcaster and onetime politician Nigel Farage in an interview when the two broached the subject, typically a topic that conservative newscasters shy away from when speaking to the former president. 
As he lambasted the network for the “insult” of reaching a settlement with Dominion, the ex-president complained that Rupert Murdoch was “wrong” to believe that he could not successfully defend the conspiratorial nonsense that the Trump campaign was spreading in 2020 (and which Mr Trump continues to push) in court.

Jim Marchant,
Candidate for Nevada U.S. Senate Seat
HeadlineNew York Times, 5/3/2023
Jim Marchant, a vocal election denier and Trump ally who lost his bid for Nevada’s secretary of state in last year’s midterm elections, declared his candidacy on Tuesday for the Senate in a swing state contest that could decide control of the chamber in 2024. 
Mr. Marchant, a Republican, is seeking to challenge Senator Jacky Rosen, a moderate Democrat who is in her first term. No other high-profile Republicans have entered the contest so far. 
During last year’s midterm elections, Mr. Marchant helped organize a national “America First” slate of secretary of state candidates, a group of right-wing election deniers whose campaigns centered on re-litigating baseless voter fraud claims. All but one of the candidates were rejected by voters.

Kandiss Taylor
GOP Chairwoman of GA 1st CD
 
New York Times, 5/1/2023
One of the more colorful winners was Kandiss Taylor, the new chairwoman of the First Congressional District. A keen peddler of conspiracy nuttiness, Ms. Taylor ran for governor last year, proclaiming herself “the ONLY candidate bold enough to stand up to the Luciferian Cabal.” After winning just slightly more than 3 percent of the primary vote, she declared that the election results could not be trusted and refused to concede — an antidemocratic move straight from the Trump playbook. As a chairwoman, she is promising “big things” for her district. So Southeast Georgia has that to look forward to.


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